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  • A Planet of the Six Legged Horses

    There is a safety valve in place to cushion Avatar from becoming another cliché film dealing with apartheid ideology on a global level. This element is that the planet is inhabitable to human beings – without the use of oxygen masks they cannot survive in Pandora; henceforth the use of Avatars. Avatar reminds us that…

  • Surrogates

    Cyberspace, the nervous system of machines? In 1999 when the dust had settled after the Matrix (1999) had made its mark, it had set the tone for follow-up science fiction films; it had raised the bar through its rich and intricate narrative as well as through the special effects it incorporated. Today we have inherited films such as Equilibrium…

  • Thou Shall Circumcise and Survive

    They will meet their maker for sure. Quarantine is the way and nothing else. Wait a moment did I say quarantine? Perhaps this box-in effect in our flat is getting to me. I meant abstinence, that’s what I meant, abstinence. Avoidance of the sexual act until the two parties, man or woman or woman and…

  • A Rainbow in Crisis

    Akin to the collapse of the Berlin Wall at the dawn of the 90’s so had the wall that separated South Africans from the inevitable commingling with each other removed. Black and white people were now viewing each other from a close quarters perspective – as equal. And the nation gave birth to the new…

  • Joe de Beer's Departure Art Exhibition

    Art functions simultaneously at two levels, on the one hand it is a commodity and on the other it is a reflection of the artist’s meditation on life: The lived experience that the artist has personalized as stills of moments either in symbolic form or as direct commentary of what the artist feels ought to…

  • A Report to the Academy

    I Any reader familiar with Franz Kafka’s Metamorphoses would agree without doubt that that work concerns itself with alienation of the self. We see the protagonist being isolated from his family due to the odd working hours he is subjected to, he is part of the proletariat machine. Furthermore his transformation into a beetle one…

  • Visual Art Infrastructure

    An exhibition’s core aim, never mind the content of the artworks, is to bring a body of work, executed by different or the same artist, into one space and create a dialogue between the artworks – this is also subordinate to the content of the work forming the exhibition; meaning the vision of what the…

  • Responsibility in Representation: Buthelezi

    By hiding behind the name ‘Staff Writer’, which in a sense, delimits debate and is imbibed with the grey area effect – for we do not know who writes, is suspicious of disrespect for the subject matter. As far as the article in question id concerned the discerning reader must just read between the lines…